Example sentences of "[noun] thought [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howes thought it a prescient occasion . |
| 2 | Ramsey thought it a protection against wrongful ceremony to understand its principles . |
| 3 | Anabelle thought it a splendid treat , and drank it down at once . |
| 4 | Nails thought it a good idea . |
| 5 | A ducal esquire by 1475 , when the London mercers thought him a man worth cultivating , he was also the duke 's feoffee and after Richard 's accession became treasurer of the royal household . |
| 6 | A ducal esquire by 1475 , when the London mercers thought him a man worth cultivating , he was also the duke 's feoffee and after Richard 's accession became treasurer of the royal household . |
| 7 | Grunte thought her a damn fine woman . |
| 8 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 9 | In fact , Theda thought it a beautiful old building , and felt it to be a pity that it should have been allowed to go to rack . |
| 10 | That Emilia thought her a mere child revealed how little she understood ; but then Louisa herself had only limited comprehension of what remained dark and unspoken in this woman who studied her , almost coldly , summoning resolve . |
| 11 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 12 | Colt thought it a serious mistake by his target to have gone in person to the Syrian Embassy . |
| 13 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
| 14 | The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year . |
| 15 | Simon Draper thought it a bad idea , but realised that argument was futile . |
| 16 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 17 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 18 | No doubt the woman thought him a concerned , doting husband . |
| 19 | Even his own father thought it a big weakness . |
| 20 | He knew that people thought them an ideal couple because they lived their mutual lives at arm 's length , they complemented each other in self-containment . |
| 21 | But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling . |
| 22 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 23 | Bissett thought him the most brilliant man he had ever met . |
| 24 | The church historian Norman Sykes thought it a bad choice for the see , too party a man for a see which needed breadth of mind . |
| 25 | He was an Afghan who bemused Robert Graves , and in this book must be regarded as a bee which escaped from that capacious bonnet ; his Kabul cousins thought him a figure of pure comedy . |
| 26 | The headmaster thought him a prime example of naughtiness , but Herbert responded that if the staff were doing their job properly , little boys would not want to run away . |
| 27 | Dalgliesh thought it a risk that the murderer might well have thought worth taking . |
| 28 | Although he was wearing an old check shirt and dirty cricket flannels that stopped above his ankles , Constance thought him the most elegantly handsome man she had ever seen . |
| 29 | The doctor thought him a rotter . |
| 30 | In short , they became friends , and as time passed Diana thought her a good match for her errant brother-in-law . |